IPL-10: In Numbers @ the half-way stage

The 10^th edition of IPL has completed half of its league stage matches on 24^th April (On Sachin’s birthday). The 29^th match of this edition, RCB vs SRH was cancelled due to rain and so, the statistics so far accumulated will be pertained to the first 28 matches only. Let’s see this edition in numbers.

GOLDEN DUCKS this SEASON:

Players to be out for 0(1)

Batsman	Mode	Bowler
Axar Patel	c Sunil Narine	Umesh Yadav
Mandeep Singh	Bowled	Mitchell McClenaghan
Mitchell McClenaghan	c Mandeep Singh	Samuel Badree
Shardul Thakur	Bowled	Andrew Tye
Shardul Thakur	c AB de Villiers	Adam Milne
Samuel Badree	Bowled	Jaydev Unadkat
Yuvraj Singh	c Wriddhiman Saha	Axar Patel
Hashim Amla	lbw	Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Rishabh Pant	c David Warner	Yuvraj Singh
Akshdeep Nath	lbw	KC Cariappa
Virat Kohli	c Manish Pandey	Nathan Coulter-Nile

RUNS:

ORANGE CAP: MOST RUNS BY A PLAYER THIS SEASON

So far 9241 runs have been scored, with Gujarat Lions leading the charts with1208 runs.

The players who scored the:

1000^th run: Chris Lynn vs GL

2000^th run: Moises Henriques vs GL

3000^th run: David Warner vs MI

4000^th run: Ben Stokes vs GL

5000^th run: Brendon McCullum vs MI

6000^th run: Naman Ojha vs KXIP

7000^th run: Shaun Marsh vs MI

8000^th run: Rahul Tripathi vs SRH

9000^th run: Ajinkya Rahane vs MI

WICKETS:

PURPLE CAP: MOST WICKETS BY A PLAYER THIS SEASON

So far 330 wickets have been taken in this edition, with Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders leading the chart with 48 wickets.

The players who were dismissed as the:

50th wkt: Sam Billings c Billy Stanlake b Iqbal Abdulla

100th wkt: Shikhar Dhawan b Mitchell McCleanaghan

150th wkt: Colin de Grandhomme b Bhuvneshwar Kumar

200th wkt: Karun Nair b Nathan Coulter-Nile

250th wkt: Sunil Narine c James Faulkner b Suresh Raina

300th wkt: Yusuf Pathan st Kedar Jadhav b Yuzvendra Chahal

FOURS:

PLAYERS WITH MOST FOURS: MOST FOURS BY PLAYER

So far 800 fours have been hit in this season, with Kolkata Knight Riders leading the charts with 115 fours.

Players to have hit the:

50^th four: Steven Smith vs MI

100^th four: Chris Lynn vs GL

150^th four: Jason Roy vs SRH

200^th four: AB de Villiers vs KXIP

250^th four: Krunal Pandya vs KKR

300^th four: Sunil Narine vs KXIP

350^th four: Brendon McCullum vs RPS

400^th four: Sam Billings vs KXIP

450^th four: Ajinkya Rahane vs RCB

500^th four: Manish Pandey vs DD

550^th four: Ishan Kishan vs RCB

600^th four: Hashim Amla vs MI

650^th four: Suresh Raina vs KKR

700^th four: Kieron Pollard vs DD

750^th four: Sunil Narine vs RCB

800^th four: Hardik Pandya vs RPS

SIXES:

PLAYERS WITH MOST SIXES: MOST SIXES BY A PLAYER

So far 353 sixes have been hit in this season, with Mumbai Indian leading the charts with 59 sixes.

Players to have hit the:

50^th six: Ben Stokes vs KXIP

100^th six: Mandeep Singh vs KXIP

150^th six: Sunil Narine vs KXIP

200^th six: Dinesh Karthik vs MI

250^th six: Kedar Jadhav vs GL

300^th six: Hardik Pandya vs KXIP

350^th six: Rohit Sharma vs RPS

Kolkata Knight Riders, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Daredevils, Rising Pune Supergiant have taken more wickets than they have hit 6s in this edition. Royal Challengers Bengaluru have taken equal number of wickets and 6s this season.

DOT BALLS:

PLAYER WITH MOST DOT-BALLS: MOST DOT BALLS BOWLED BY A PLAYER

Dot-balls become vital in T20 and so far, 2253 dot-balls have been bowled, with Mumbai Indians leading the charts delivering 333 dot-balls.

The players who bowled the:

500^th dot-ball: Ankit Rajpoot vs MI

1000^th dot-ball: Imran Tahir vs GL

1500^th dot-ball: Bhuvneshwar Kumar vs KXIP

2000^th dot-ball: Suresh Raina vs KXIP

With half-season remaining and with 31 matches to come, expect all of these columns be improved with more amount of entries in the milestone ones. Expect the next one after the league stages are over on May 14, DD vs RCB. Until then enjoy watching the IPL #10SaalAapKeNaam

Guha Karthikeyan S T

THE GOLDEN DUCKS OF IPL

                                

No batsman in their career would like to get out on duck. Adding the case of getting out for golden/diamond duck makes it even worse. But in the T20 form of cricket, these ducks are more common. And, the IPL too has also seen many ducks and golden ducks. And today the IPL has seen its 300^th Golden Duck.

Getting out for Golden Duck is not a good record to have under your name but there have been players who have had to bear it 300 times in IPL. Here we look at the 1^st, 50^th, 100^th, 150^th, 200^th, 250^th and finally the 300^th player to be out for Golden Duck in IPL.

First: Chaminda Vaas c Sourav Ganguly b Ajit Agarkar 0(1), IPL 2008.

50^th: Arindam Ghosh c Sachin Tendulkar b Abishek Nayar 0(1), IPL 2009.

100^th: Adam Gilchrist c Robin Uthappa b Dale Steyn 0(1), IPL 2010.

150^th: Sunil Narine b Kevon Cooper, IPL 2012.

200^th: Biplab Samantray b Sandeep Sharma, IPL 2013.

250^th: Dale Steyn c Keiron Pollard b Lasith Malinga, IPL 2015.

300^th: Yuvraj Singh c Naman Ojha b Axar Patel, IPL 2017.



Guha Karthikeyan S T

GEN-NEXT CRICKET INSTITUTE

India is a cricket-fanatic country. Almost everyone of us at some stages of our life would have had a dream of playing the game in front of the crowd.

Is the dream alone enough though? 

NO, Right? 

Well then what more is needed? 

You need someone like Whatmore to coach and mentor you.

Is Whatmore omnipresent? No. 

But there are people like Whatmore (or) Achrekar (or) Rajkumar Sharma present all around. When it comes to Chennai, the training institute that rises up in the people's mind would be GEN-NEXT, mentored and managed by the Indian SPIN-KING @present, Ravichandran Ashwin.

Now Why Gen-Next?

Like Other academies, they do not enrol in bulk numbers. The enrolling is limited and they make it a point that every player under them gets individual attention and are helped by their coaches to amplify their strengths and attenuate their weaknesses.

Location and Amenities:

The institute is located in the most commuted part of the city (also known as the heart of the city), T. Nagar in the picturesque RKM Grounds in GN Chetty Road.

Coming to the amenities, the institute has adequate amount of practice nets, bowling machines, equipment for fielding drills and 12 wickets (7 turf, 4 matting and 1 concrete inclusive of the centre wicket).

PROGRAMS:

A Look at the various programs they carry out

Vision 2020:

Vision 2020, designed by Ashwin comes with the primary focus on finding the cricketers for the next generation. The young and talented kids (players) are developed and nurtured to make them competitively ready for the tournaments by the year 2020. Don’t be surprised when one of them from this academy goes on to wear the Indian cap.

This program runs all through the year.

High Performance:

Touted as the ‘brain-child’ of Ashwin, this programme offers intense coaching along with focus on the fitness for the players who are ready to play in the league stages. Mornings are for fitness trainings and evenings are for ground trainings.

With tie-ups with the gyms in the vicinity, the fitness programs keep an eye on the player’s fitness, apart from providing nutrition counselling and diets for its players.

Players representing Tamil Nadu in domestic tournaments can also be seen mentoring the HP players.

This program runs all through the year.

Weekend Coaching:

This program runs through all week-ends for the kids and adults who could not allocate more of their time for cricket.

This program runs all through June-March.

Summer Slam:

Now “SUMMER”- What would that mean for cricket? Yes, the little children in our area ruling the streets with the bat and ball. But in the present time, with most of the area going for parking, they have to find places to play.

But, don’t you worry. On a FCFS basis your kids can enrol @Gen-Next to play cricket. They can not only play the game with the same fun and zeal, but also in the process learn more about the game.

What’s more? The best kids from the Summer Slam would be offered chances to enrol for the Vision 2020 or the High Performance programmes.

This program runs all through the months of April and May.

EXTRAS:

Theory Sessions:

The game is not only about playing it in the field, is it? Some part of the game we need to play with our mind, the mind games, not necessarily sledging. Gen-Next provides theory sessions by bringing out experts/players from outside to give their players about the tactics need to be played and also providing some in-sights from the international games.

Weekly Reports:

For a stable system, there needs to be a feedback.

And the same is done by Gen-Next by providing reports on a weekly-basis, based on the player’s performance throughout the week. These reports are either given to the parents (or) to the player.








So Chennaites, do you want your kid to be one of the best cricketers of the next-gen? If so, enrol them @ GEN-NEXT!!!



Guha Karthikeyan S T